1 Institute of Preventive Medicine Environmental and Occupational Health, Athens, Greece 2 Department of Statistics, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece 3 Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece 4 Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, Medical School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece 5 Department of P...

After porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) was detected in the United States in 2013, we tested environmental samples from trailers in which pigs had been transported. PEDV was found in 5.2% of trailers not contaminated at arrival, , suggesting that the transport process is a source of transmission if adequate hygiene measures are not implemented.

Care Units Results from the German National Surveillance System for Nosocomial Infections (KISS) Michael Behnke, PhD; Rasmus Leistner, MD; Luis Alberto Pena-Diaz, MSc; Friederike Maechler; Petra Gastmeier, MD; German National Reference Center for the Surveillance of Nosocomial Infections, Berlin, Germany; Institute of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine, Charité – University Medicine Berlin, Ber...

1 Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece, 2 Department of Pneumonology, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece, 3 Department of Pediatrics, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece, 4 Laboratory of Hygiene and Environmental Protection, Medical School, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupo...

The aspect of preventive medicine is mainly based upon the intake of competed food stuffs. Ayurveda is the pioneer system to give due place to this branch. The author discusses in this paper the human dietetics from tho view point of physical and social hygiene by deeply thinking of surrounding environmental and social conditions.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate and quantify the economic benefits attributable to improvements in water supply and sanitation in rural India. METHODS We combined propensity-score "pre-matching" and rich pre-post panel data on 9500 households in 242 villages located in four geographically different districts to estimate the economic benefits of a large-scale community demand-driven water supply program...

BACKGROUND The frequency of diagnosis of Crohn's disease (CD) in India is increasing. This case-control study was designed to detect associations of environmental and dietary factors with the diagnosis of CD. METHODS In 200 consecutive patients with CD and 200 control subjects without gastrointestinal disease, environmental hygiene exposures in childhood and in the past one year, and dietary ...

Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections are of increasing importance to clinicians, public health agencies and governments. Prevention and control strategies must address sources in healthcare settings, the community and livestock. This document presents the conclusions of a European Consensus Conference on the role of screening and decolonisation in the control of MRSA inf...

The Great Lakes Center of Excellence in Environmental Health (GLCEEH), an innovative capacity-building component of the University of Illinois, performs health hazard evaluations in collaboration with the Illinois Department of Public Health and local health departments. GLCEEH has provided state and local health departments with faculty, industrial-hygiene expertise, and research expertise to ...

Exposures to environmental pollution remain a major source of health risk throughout the world, though risks are generally higher in developing countries, where poverty, lack of investment in modern technology and weak environmental legislation combine to cause high pollution levels. Associations between environmental pollution and health outcome are, however, complex and often poorly character...